Dexter Cartoon for August 20, 2004

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Dexter Cartoon for August 6, 2004

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Dexter Cartoon for August 13, 2004

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Dexter Cartoon for August 27, 2004

Dexter Cartoon for August 27, 2004 08/27/2004 01:51 PM

PS: The reference to "channel surfing" makes this one seem really dated. Keep in mind, though, that it was drawn in 1990, before web surfing even existed.

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Dexter Cartoon for Dec 3, 2004

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Dexter Cartoon for Dec 10, 2004

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Dexter Cartoon for Dec 17, 2004

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Dexter Cartoon for Dec 31, 2004

Dexter Cartoon for Dec 31, 2004 12/31/2004 10:38 AM

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Dexter Cartoon for Dec 24, 2004

Dexter Cartoon for Dec 24, 2004 12/24/2004 01:11 PM

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Dexter Cartoon for Sept 10, 2004

Dexter Cartoon for Sept 10, 2004 09/10/2004 02:44 PM

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Dexter Cartoon for Sept 17, 2004

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Dexter Cartoon for Sept 24, 2004

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Dexter Cartoon for July 30, 2004

Dexter Cartoon for July 30, 2004 07/30/2004 03:18 PM

I had some nice feedback following last week's "Dexter" cartoon, so I've decided to make my old cartoons a regular Friday feature. I don't have many cartoons to choose from, but I should be able to keep this going for a few months. I actually drew "Dexter" five days a week for a couple of years so you'd think I'd have hundreds to pick from, but I have just a handful scanned in, many of which are too dated to reprint (they were all drawn between 1989 and 1991).

The ones I have scanned are my "safe" cartoons which I sent to syndicates. See, the majority of my Dexter comics talked about race, religion, politics and sex, and they used language that would make Garfield and Beetle Bailey run screaming into the hills. I knew I'd never get into the newspapers with that stuff, so I created a number of strips which tackled less sensitive subjects, hoping to use them to sneak into the papers. I figured once I was syndicated I could push the boundaries. Sounded like a great plan to me, but it hit a rather large roadblock: no syndicate was interested in distributing my work.

I spent a year or two slumming around trying to get my comics published, but had little luck. Then in 1995 I discovered the Web and realized I could do my own publishing - cheap. So, off I went to build my first Web site. At that time the tools for building sites were really bad, so I decided to build my own. On my Dexter site a few months later, I announced my new HTML editor - which, of course, was HomeSite 1.0. The end of the story is that HomeSite turned out be far more successful than my comics, and I followed HomeSite into a career as a computer programmer.

Anyway...that's the background story. Now here's this week's Dexter cartoon:

Dexter Cartoon for September 3, 2004 -
"The Salesman"

Dexter Cartoon for September 3, 2004 -
"The Salesman" 09/03/2004 02:17 PM

This week's "Dexter" is one I did for a local magazine back the early 1990s, and since it's fairly large I've simply linked to the full cartoon rather than post it here. Keep in mind that I created this long before spam took over our inboxes.

Dexter Cartoon for Feb 25, 2005

Dexter Cartoon for Feb 25, 2005 03/14/2005 06:24 PM

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Dexter Cartoon for Feb. 4, 2005

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Dexter Cartoon for May 13, 2005

Dexter Cartoon for May 13, 2005 06/05/2005 11:08 PM

This week's Dexter is a big one, so rather than include the entire strip here, I've linked to it from the image below:

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Dexter Cartoon for Jan 21, 2005

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Dexter Cartoon for Jan 28, 2005

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Dexter Cartoon for March 25, 2005

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PS: This week's Dexter is dated by the reference to "Thelma and Louise," which was in theaters when I created the strip.

Dexter Cartoon for April 15, 2005

Dexter Cartoon for April 15, 2005 04/15/2005 12:27 PM

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Dexter Cartoon for April 1, 2005

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Dexter Cartoon for April 8, 2005: "Sue
Yourself"

Dexter Cartoon for April 8, 2005: "Sue
Yourself" 04/08/2005 11:55 AM

This week's "Dexter" is a six-part series I created in the strip's early days, when the title character always wore sunglasses. I was going to post these as separate cartoons over the next six weeks, but for the sake of continuity I'm posting all six parts at the same time.

Click here to read all six strips.

Dexter Cartoon for March 11, 2005

Dexter Cartoon for March 11, 2005 03/14/2005 06:24 PM

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Dexter Cartoon for March 18, 2005

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Dexter Cartoon for March 4, 2005

Dexter Cartoon for March 4, 2005 03/14/2005 06:24 PM

Okay, this week's Dexter is a little crude, but keep in mind that I created it while I was in college...

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: August 15, 2004 - August 21,
2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: August 15, 2004 - August 21,
2004 Archives 08/20/2004 06:07 PM
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: August 15, 2004 - August 21, 2004 Archives .. Weeeeell .. post

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: August 22, 2004 - August 28,
2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: August 22, 2004 - August 28,
2004 Archives 08/28/2004 12:45 AM
information on Talking Points Memo .. Josh Marshall .. good 'un

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"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: August 01, 2004 - August 07,
2004 Archives"

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Marshall: August 01, 2004 - August 07,
2004 Archives" 08/04/2004 08:19 PM

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
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Marshall: August 01, 2004 - August 07,
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: August 01, 2004 - August 07, 2004 Archives .. the Illinois GOP is trying to figure out who to run .. has some thoughts

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The Daily Cartoon for August 2

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GeorgeWBush.com :: Official Blog ::
August 01, 2004 - August 07, 2004
Archive

GeorgeWBush.com :: Official Blog ::
August 01, 2004 - August 07, 2004
Archive 08/04/2004 11:42 PM
President Bush’s campaign blog .. quote from an NRO piece

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This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow:
August 08, 2004 - August 14, 2004
Archives

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow:
August 08, 2004 - August 14, 2004
Archives 08/10/2004 03:40 AM
September is “national preparedness month” .. has a great post on an upcoming Bush campaign strategy .. usefully timed

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Skype’s free telephony software,
launched in August 2003, spread through
word-of-mouth, with no traditional
marketing, to claim over 7 million users
in August 2004

Skype’s free telephony software,
launched in August 2003, spread through
word-of-mouth, with no traditional
marketing, to claim over 7 million users
in August 2004 09/02/2004 02:11 AM
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: August 29, 2004 - September
04, 2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: August 29, 2004 - September
04, 2004 Archives 08/31/2004 02:19 AM
The Bush retreat? .. Talking Points Memo .. which end is up .. Today

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Excerpts Of Remarks Prepared For
Delivery At The 2004 Republican National
Convention On Monday, August 30, 2004

Excerpts Of Remarks Prepared For
Delivery At The 2004 Republican National
Convention On Monday, August 30, 2004 08/30/2004 10:15 AM
Excerpts Of Remarks Prepared For Delivery At The 2004 Republican National Convention .. press release .. his speech

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August 03, 2004

August 03, 2004 08/03/2004 12:27 PM
SoftwareCEO.com has a feature about Fog Creek Software on their home page this week: “In fact, Spolsky takes a skeptical view of almost every bit of received wisdom he's ever heard about running a software company. His views are refreshing and thought-provoking, and they certainly work in his niche.” (Read it this week, as SoftwareCEO archives are open to paid subscribers only.)

August 19, 2004

August 19, 2004 08/19/2004 07:52 AM

Contents of the Joel on Software book:

• Introduction (all new!)
• Choosing a Language
• Back to Basics
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• Painless Functional Specifications
• Painless Software Schedules
• Daily Builds Are Your Friend
• Hard-assed Bug Fixin'
• Five Worlds
• Paper Prototyping
• Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
• Fire And Motion
• Craftsmanship
• Three Wrong Ideas From Computer Science
• Biculturalism
• Every Crash, Everywhere
• Interviewing
• Incentive Pay Considered Harmful
• Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers
• Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
• Things You Should Never Do, Part I
• The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
• The Law of Leaky Abstractions
• Lord Palmerston on Programming
• Measurement
• Foreword to "In Search of Stupidity"
• What is the Work of Dogs in this Country?
• Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt
• Two Stories
• Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef
• Nothing is as Simple as it Seems
• In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
• Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon
• Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems
• Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
• Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
• Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source
• Murphy's Law Gone Wild
• How Microsoft Lost the API War
• Microsoft Goes Bonkers
• Our .NET Strategy
• Please Sir May I Have a Linker?
• The Best of Ask Joel

 

August 06, 2004

August 06, 2004 08/06/2004 11:51 AM

I'm just about to leave for the annual Spolsky family vacation... this year we've got a villa in Umbria, Italy. I'll be passing through Rome on Monday, August 16th. We've got a few people who have already confirmed to meet for a dinner there, so if you'll be in town, let's meet up!

Where: The lobby of the Aleph Hotel
Address: Via di San Basilio, 15
When: 20.00 16/08/01

I'll make sure the concierge knows where I am. At 8 PM when we see how many people show up, we'll find a good restaurant that's open (not easy in August in Rome, I'm told) and talk about software (and food (and the heat)).

August 04, 2004

August 04, 2004 08/04/2004 08:45 PM

Eric Sink: “It‘s okay to be in awe of these great hackers. But as a practical matter, small ISVs would be much better off hiring professionals.” Agreed!

Which reminds me, I can't wait for Johanna Rothman's new book on hiring geeks to come out. I'm reading the manuscript now and it's a great book on a topic that doesn't get a lot of coverage.

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